I don't know what the next Pope is going to be like. I do know this, the Catholic laity all over the world have made up their minds-we have data from 37 countries-have made up their minds the Church is not going to interfere in their sex lives. That may be wrong, but that's the way it is.
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The radical feminists include their sisters and their nieces and their mothers and all the women in their lives. They just don't like the way the Church treats them. And this includes lots of parish priests. They are just awfully sloppy in their respect and sensitivity toward women.
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I wouldn't say the world is my parish, but my readers are my parish. And especially the readers that write to me. They're my parish. And it's a responsibility that I enjoy.
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Most people who are born Catholic are still Catholic, unless they've had a divorce and remarriage problem. I think the Church is just ham-handed in dealing with those people.
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The Catholics we lose-it's almost always over divorce and remarriage, of which problem we have made a real mess.
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